As I understand it, a born executive is a guy who, when anything difficult or unexpected happens, yells for somebody to come and help him.

The trouble with an alarm clock is that what seems sensible when you set it seems absurd when it goes off

In a world that operates largely at random, coincidences are to be expected, but any one of them must always be mistrusted.

Sometimes it's things that take the joy out of life, like a blowout when you're hitting sixty or a button coming off of a shirt when you're in a hurry, but usually it's people.

The brain can be hoodwinked but not the stomach.

A person who does not read cannot think. He may have good mental processes, but he has nothing to think about. You can feel for people or natural phenomena and react to them, but they are not ideas. You cannot think about them.

You can't dance cheerfully. Dancing is too important. It can be wild or solemn or gay or lewd or art for art's sake, but it can't be cheerful.